How to pronounce“phylogenies”in English

Biologists construct phylogenies by comparing the anatomy and DNA of different organisms.

Constructing the phylogenies of different species helps us make sense of Earth’s big, ongoing, extended family, with all of its weird and wonderful offshoots.

Evolutionary trees are called phylogenies.

But by making phylogenies and examining DNA, we do know they’re the closest non-animal relative we’ve got.

So zoologists will often make several phylogenies using different approaches.

You might remember from our first episode that phylogenies or phylogenetic trees are diagrams that scientists use to describe the evolutionary relationships between different

Biologists today still debate Kimura’s ideas and apply them to inform their understanding of the phylogenies of different species.